Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Bryan Cranston Hovers Over "The Great Wall"

Deadline reports that "Breaking Bad" and "Godzilla" star Bryan Cranston is in early talks to join the supernatural meets historical epic "The Great Wall".


 Matt Damon is currently sorting out his schedule to try and play the lead in the long in the works pic.

"Blood Diamond" and "The Last Samurai" director Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz wrote the script, from a story by Thomas Tull and Max Brooks, which looks at the mystery behind the construction of the Great Wall of China. The story follows a group of British warriors traveling through 15th Century China and come upon the hurried construction As night falls, the warriors realize that the haste in building the wall isn’t just to keep out the Mongols. There is something inhuman and more dangerous.

Henry Cavill Alexander SkarsgĂ„rd Zhang Ziyi and Benjamin Walker were poised to star in the film along with other Chinese talent before it was postponed back in June 2012 due to climate and financial issues.

Zwick was due to call action--he left in the fall of 2012 after the film was delayed. The basic concept remains intact. Tony Gilroy wrote the most recent script following work by Carlo Bernard and Doug Miro. ("House of Flying Daggers," "Raise the Red Lantern") is set to direct the film.

Tull, Charles Roven, Jon Jashni, Richard Suckle and Peter Loehr will produce the film now.

It's not known if or how this news will impact Yimou's film adaptation of author Robert Ludlum's novel "The Parsifal Mosaic"

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